Linux-Hardware Digest #812, Volume #14 Tue, 22 May 01 23:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: About Digital Cameras for Linux? (Frank Hahn)
Re: AC97 Onboard Sound (Michael F.)
Re: Logitech Quickcam Web USB (Michael F.)
Re: Serial port expansion board recommendation? (Michael F.)
Re: Best 100Mbs PCI Ethernet card? (Michael F.)
Adaptec 7899 host adapter and Linux 2.4.4 (Dave van Leeuwen)
SB 16 IDE port ("Antoine Brialon")
Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI sound driver problem (Neurophyre)
Re: Best 100Mbs PCI Ethernet card? (James Knott)
Re: Best 100Mbs PCI Ethernet card?
Re: SB 16 IDE port (Michael F.)
Diamond Monster Fusion ("Leif")
Re: linux freezing (Marcus)
Re: linux freezing (Dances With Crows)
Re: Hardware. (Dances With Crows)
Re: About Digital Cameras for Linux? (Marcus)
Re: Best 100Mbs PCI Ethernet card? (Ya!Right!)
Re: Adaptec 7899 host adapter and Linux 2.4.4 (Joseph Meier)
Re: How do I determine parallel port irq etc? (Mike Martin)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: About Digital Cameras for Linux?
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 00:10:02 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 22 May 2001 05:47:04 GMT, Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm looking into getting a Digital camera, and want something that I can
> use with Linux. I haven't looked far yet; I've checked out the Kodak MC3
> and the DLink DSC350. I'm looking for a camera that
> - can be used as a photo camera
> - provides good still picture resolutions
> - can be used as a webcamera,
> - can be attached to a Linux system (download/edit photos, etc.)
>
> Additionally, it wouldn't hurt my feelings if the camera could also take
> motion video
>
I just bought a Canon PowerShot G1 a few weeks back and I have been
happy with it. I bought it locally and paid US $828.00 for it.
I have been able to download pictures from it via the USB cable that
came with the camera. It also uses CompactFlash media. I bought a
Sandisk SDDR-31 reader and was able to download pictures from the
memory card via the Sandisk device. I currently have the 2.2.19
kernel installed on a Slackware 7.1 system.
There are plenty of reviews out there on the camera. It is a 3.4
megapixel camera. The only thing I don't like is that Canon got cheap
on the cover the covers the openings on where the cables connect to
the camera. That is why I bought the Sandisk device. I will only
need to open that cover when I charge the battery.
The camera comes with a 16MB memory card that will hold about 45
pictures at 1024x768 at the medium compression. It will also use the
IBM Microdrives. It also comes with the battery charger which the
Nikon Coolpix cameras that I looked at didn't.
I don't know about the Webcamera requirement that you have listed
though. It does do video with sound but is limited to 30 seconds at a
time. I don't know why that is.
If you have questions, let me know.
--
Frank Hahn
The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to
everybody and still nobody likes him.
-- Jim Samuels
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From: Michael F. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AC97 Onboard Sound
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 10:15:46 +1000
Don't think i'll ever have time to install linux onto another system I
have with an AOPEN AX3SP board. Its the Intel815EP chipset. has
onboard AC97 sound codec and no video onboard..
Be curious to know if it does work, but I won't be doing it to soon.
As I can't find the time just to install it all to test one or two
things.
Oh well :P If someone has the same motherboard and has it working,
drop us an email. Be curious to know :P
-
Michael
On Wed, 23 May 2001 00:02:15 +0200, Michael Gutbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Markku Kolkka wrote:
>
>> "Colin G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> I'm in the market for a new motherboard and I'm seeing some with
>>> onboard sound. For the most part these, the ones I'm seeing have an
>>> "AC97" audio chipset.
>> It's not really a specific chipset, but a specification by Intel for
>> an audio codec interface
>> (http://developer.intel.com/ial/scalableplatforms/audio/index.htm).
>> There are several chips that implement the AC97 specification.
>>
>>> How well supported is this chipset?
>>
>> Depends on the actual chipset implementing the AC97 spec.
>>
>>> I have a suspicion that
>>> support for it is found in the Maestro/Maestro2 kernel modules.
>>> True?
>>
>> No. There are separate ac97 and ac97_codec modules that are loaded
>> by the driver for the specific chipset you are using (e.g. es1371,
>> via82cxxx_audio, etc.)
>
>Some time ago I tested my onboard sound made by VIA with kernel 2.4.1
>(I can't correctly recall the version.). The module via82cxxx_audio
>worked with one exception: Always when my xmms played a new (mp3)
>song the card gave me an ugly "click" sound. Since I primarily use my
>SBLive! I didn't tested it with linux 2.4.4 which I use at the
>moment. As well as I remember two dsp devices worked. Since I don't
>know exactly I guess that these devices get assigned to the sound
>interfaces in the sequence as the corresponding modules are loaded.
>
>Regards
>
>Michael
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From: Michael F. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Logitech Quickcam Web USB
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 10:17:20 +1000
Never been able to get my one working... although with USB support,
you can see the USB stuff at boot time see the USB device, but no one
has written utils to interface this type of unit.
I found a site with some stuff, but it was only written for the one
type of CCD I think, and apparently the cam's have several models with
severl different types of CCD's.
Oh well, live in hope :P
-
Michael
On Tue, 22 May 2001 21:44:19 GMT, "David Leblond"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have the Logitech Quickcam Web USB (the old square one if anyone cares)
>and was wondering if there was a way to use it in Linux. I have Linux
>Mandrake 8.0 with kernel 2.4.4. I want to use it as a webcam eventually.
>-David
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From: Michael F. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Serial port expansion board recommendation?
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 10:18:05 +1000
Stallion, Cyclades and Digiboard's or Digiservers..
-
Michael
On Tue, 22 May 2001 15:13:19 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Majka)
wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I'm looking for a PCI 8-port serial expansion card that supports
>baud rates from 9600bps to at least 115.2kbps (preferably higher)
>with linux drivers available. Does anyone have a favorite vendor
>for this type of card? I looked at a couple vendors listed on
>www.linux.org, but wanted to see what people have experience
>with.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Matt Majka
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From: Michael F. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best 100Mbs PCI Ethernet card?
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 10:19:37 +1000
3com 905TX?
-
Michael
On Tue, 22 May 2001 17:29:27 -0500, Timur Tabi
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm looking for a 100Mbs PCI Ethernet card for my box. Requirements:
>
>1. Fast and reliable hardware - no cost-saving short-cuts. I.e. it
>should support full-duplex, etc.
>2. Well-written drivers (OS/2 and Linux)
>
>Preferably, it should also be supported by the default installations of
>OS/2 Warp 4 and most recent Linux distributions. I don't care about
>Windows at all.
>
>Does anyone have any recommendations? Cost is not a factor.
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From: Dave van Leeuwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adaptec 7899 host adapter and Linux 2.4.4
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 12:27:01 +1200
Hi,
has anyone had any luck gettting an onboard Adaptec 7899 SCSI controller
to work with the new aic7xxx driver?
I have a Intel STL2 mobo with sda1 being the / device. when I boot
2.4.4 the kernel panick with VFS cannot mount root device. The machine
works running Linux < 2.4.2.
Any suggestions,
Thanks in Advance
Dave
--
Dave van Leeuwen
Analyst Programmer
University of Canterbury
New Zealand
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From: "Antoine Brialon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SB 16 IDE port
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 00:46:33 GMT
Hello,
I have an IDE port on my old Sound Blaster 16 ISA, and I plugged a cdrom
drive on it. It worked pretty good until I installed RedHat 7.1. The 2.4
kernel doesn't seem to support it and the mount command keep freezed even
with a kill -9.
Do you think I have a chance to get it work again?
Thanx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neurophyre)
Subject: Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI sound driver problem
Date: 22 May 2001 18:14:49 -0700
I've got a CT5880 (es1371-based) sound card installed on an Asus A7V
with a 650MHz Duron chip... I'm running Debian 2.2r3. I have the
es1371 driver compiled straight into the kernel, not as a module.
My problem is that certain sounds appear to "lock" the sound device
for a period of time, especially the console beep generated by
xterm/konsole, etc. After such a beep, if I attempt to play a file in
winamp or load Snes9x, the program I'm attempting to use that
generates sound output will freeze up for some length of time, up to
around 30 seconds or so, before proceeding to execute normally with
proper sound output. Any fixes, or anyone else experiencing this?
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From: James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.os.os2.networking.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Best 100Mbs PCI Ethernet card?
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 01:22:18 GMT
Timur Tabi wrote:
>
> I'm looking for a 100Mbs PCI Ethernet card for my box. Requirements:
>
> 1. Fast and reliable hardware - no cost-saving short-cuts. I.e. it
> should support full-duplex, etc.
> 2. Well-written drivers (OS/2 and Linux)
>
> Preferably, it should also be supported by the default installations of
> OS/2 Warp 4 and most recent Linux distributions. I don't care about
> Windows at all.
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations? Cost is not a factor.
The A-Open cards come with OS/2 & Linux drivers. I haven't tried it
with Linux, but works fine with OS/2. Couldn't get it to work with
Windows 95 though. ;-)
--
Replies sent via e-mail to this address will be promptly ignored.
To reply, replace everything to the left of "@" with "james.knott".
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best 100Mbs PCI Ethernet card?
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.os.os2.networking.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 01:23:55 GMT
I've had great success with the 530 too, on both Linux and Warp - - -
it's my choice by far
R/Man
On Tue, 22 May 2001 17:29:27 -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
>I'm looking for a 100Mbs PCI Ethernet card for my box. Requirements:
>
>1. Fast and reliable hardware - no cost-saving short-cuts. I.e. it
>should support full-duplex, etc.
>2. Well-written drivers (OS/2 and Linux)
>
>Preferably, it should also be supported by the default installations of
>OS/2 Warp 4 and most recent Linux distributions. I don't care about
>Windows at all.
>
>Does anyone have any recommendations? Cost is not a factor.
>
>--
>Timur Tabi
>Remove "nospam_" from email address before sending reply
>Interactive Silicon - http://www.interactivesi.com
>
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From: Michael F. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB 16 IDE port
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 11:38:10 +1000
Its needs driver support, ie a module or the thing compiled in
kernel... its not a standard IDE port... ie, its not usable with
normal IDE stuff compiled in :P
On Wed, 23 May 2001 00:46:33 GMT, "Antoine Brialon"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>I have an IDE port on my old Sound Blaster 16 ISA, and I plugged a cdrom
>drive on it. It worked pretty good until I installed RedHat 7.1. The 2.4
>kernel doesn't seem to support it and the mount command keep freezed even
>with a kill -9.
>Do you think I have a chance to get it work again?
>
>Thanx
>
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From: "Leif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Diamond Monster Fusion
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 01:46:16 GMT
I installed Redhat 7.1, which includes kernel 2.4.2 and XFree86 4.0.3 and I
have been unable to get the 3dfx X driver (tdfx) to work with my Diamond
Monster Fusion. When I run X, I get a garbled display. I don't know if the
problem resides with the X driver itself or the tdfxfb module that the X
driver seems to depend on.
As I recall, the Diamond Monster Fusion is an overclocked Voodoo Banshee
chipset and I remember having the same type of problems with a Voodoo
Banshee driver under Win98. The solution at that time was to tweak a
"memclock" field in the registry so I assume the problem was caused because
the Voodoo Banshee is overclocked.
Has anyone been able to get a Diamond Monster Fusion to run under X using
the tdfx driver?
I would appreciate any help.
Thanks - Eric
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From: Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux freezing
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 19:02:13 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
alik blochin wrote:
> Hi
> i have a very strange problem:
> i recently installed mandrake 8.0 and everything goes alright but every 2-3
> hours i get a completely freezed system(only power button helps)
> and nothing seems wrong:
> all the drivers are installed properly....
> The system freezes particulary on screensaver...
>
> has anybody seen this before ?
>
>
>
Could you give more details, like what kind of hardware you have, and
what kind of software you're running when it freezes?
Marcus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: linux freezing
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 23 May 2001 02:01:55 GMT
On Tue, 22 May 2001 19:51:08 +0200, alik blochin staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>i have a very strange problem: i recently installed mandrake 8.0 and
>everything goes alright but every 2-3 hours i get a completely freezed
>system(only power button helps) and nothing seems wrong: all the
>drivers are installed properly.... The system freezes particulary on
>screensaver...
Had similar problems back in 1999, the culprit was a bad motherboard.
As the other poster suggested, check the CPU fan. Look on freshmeat.net
for "cpuburn" and try running that... if your machine freezes up very
quickly while running that, you've found the problem.
It could also be a problem with your video card. What's the make and
model, and is it soldered to the board, or in an AGP slot?
Finally, try out "memtest86", again from freshmeat.net, as this can find
problems with marginal RAM. HTH,
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Hardware.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 23 May 2001 02:01:56 GMT
On Tue, 22 May 2001 09:56:07 -0500, Shriram Ramanathan staggered into
the Black Sun and said:
>Can someone tell me if the following hardware is supported in linux :
>1. Integrated ATA-100 Super-I/O Peripheral Controller (PSIPC)
That's not enough information to make an informed reply. "Integrated"
probably means that it's soldered to the board, rather than an add-on
card, so either it's the main IDE controller for the system, or there
is another controller with UDMA/{33,66} ports. If it is the only IDE
controller in the system, then it will be supported, though possibly at
UDMA/66 until you upgrade the IDE chipset drivers. If there are also
UDMA/{33,66} ports on the board, the UDMA/100 ports may not be supported
until you upgrade your kernel, depending on how old the distro you
choose to install is.
If you could get more information, like the manufacturer, the name of
the ATA/100 chipset, and whether it's the only one on the board or not,
you could probably get a definitive answer.
> [massive, non-delimited .sig, snipped]
When your signature is 16 lines and the content of your message is 8
lines, something's wrong. Do a search on "McQuarrie Convention".
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: About Digital Cameras for Linux?
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 19:12:26 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lew Pitcher wrote:
> I'm looking into getting a Digital camera, and want something that I can
> use with Linux. I haven't looked far yet; I've checked out the Kodak MC3
> and the DLink DSC350. I'm looking for a camera that
> - can be used as a photo camera
> - provides good still picture resolutions
> - can be used as a webcamera,
> - can be attached to a Linux system (download/edit photos, etc.)
>
> Additionally, it wouldn't hurt my feelings if the camera could also take
> motion video
>
> Anyone got some recommendations?
>
>
First, look at www.camerazon.com for links to camera reviews. That's
a big "MUST".
Also, I wonder whether the webcam functions of most digital cameras
are well supported under Linux, seeing as how digital cameras (especially
ones which have good still picture resolutions) are so rarely used as webcams
(at least compared to actual webcams). For the other features you've
requested, I'd suggest you look at the Olympus D490 Zoom.
Marcus
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From: Ya!Right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best 100Mbs PCI Ethernet card?
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 22:31:45 -0700
Michael F. wrote:
> 3com 905TX?
or 3com 3c595
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From: Joseph Meier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec 7899 host adapter and Linux 2.4.4
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 02:28:01 GMT
Thought I was alone. I have a bunch of intel SBT2 servers that were=20
running RH7. All was good. I tried upgrading to 2.4.1. Still happy. =20
Tried 2.4.2. Same error you reported. Same with RH7.1.
My solution: Adaptec 19160 add-in cards.
I know...... Not the cheapest, since you spent $$ for a good M/B w/=20
onboard SCSI, but I got the servers for free.
Anybody else? Buehler? Out of curiousity, has anyone tried the old=20
AHA7XXX driver?=20
Sorry I couldn't help more.
Joseph Meier
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 5/22/01, 5:27:01 PM, Dave van Leeuwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr=
ote=20
regarding Adaptec 7899 host adapter and Linux 2.4.4:
> Hi,
> has anyone had any luck gettting an onboard Adaptec 7899 SCSI controll=
er
> to work with the new aic7xxx driver?
> I have a Intel STL2 mobo with sda1 being the / device. when I boot
> 2.4.4 the kernel panick with VFS cannot mount root device. The machin=
e
> works running Linux < 2.4.2.
> Any suggestions,
> Thanks in Advance
> Dave
> --
> Dave van Leeuwen
> Analyst Programmer
> University of Canterbury
> New Zealand
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From: Mike Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I determine parallel port irq etc?
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 02:44:09 GMT
Yea... that's exactly what I thought! But I've checked all over the
place in /proc and can't find any reference to my parallel port. Neither
ioports nor interrupts list it.
Any other ideas?
Note: I don't have a printer set up. Maybe it doesn't register a
parallel port because I've never tried to use one....?
Jerry Broszkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Try man proc at a command prompt
> then cd to /proc and look at
> ioports and interrupts.
> HTH...
> --
> Take Care,
> ..jb
> // Jerry Broszkowski // (403)245-5131 // [EMAIL PROTECTED] //
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